On Sunday 07 July 2002 11:54 pm, Dennis Cardinale wrote: > When running a netfilter firewall, is there any reason to continue using > the hosts.deny and hosts.allow files, or is this just superfluous?
hosts.allow can still be useful to specify a command to run when a connection comes in (eg to provide some special logging ?), but these files don't add any security to a decently configured netfilter setup. [ IMHO ] Antony.
